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Voice and body

August 5-9th 2019, Site de pratiques théâtrales Lavauzelle, Creuse, France

Zygmunt Molik is one of the main actors of Jerzy Grotowski’s ensemble, who entered the history of theatre in the 1960′. More than an actor, Z. Molik was leading the vocal trainings of the company.

Researcher and pedagogue, he became an important person in the polish « paratheatre », developing during 50 years a praxis of vocal training implying the body and the Being. He built a body alphabet, based on precise physical actions, structuring the exploration and discovery of the voice. He taught in France for a long time.

Jorge Parente, actor and director, followed his direction during twenty years, being his assistant. After Zygmunt’s departure in 2010, he became the helder of this tradition, developping his work in France (often in La Guillotine, Montreuil), Poland (The Grotowski Institute) and Portugal.

Zoé Ogeret, actress and Jorge’s assistant, was as well a long term member of the workshops of Z. Molik.

Molik’s methodology can be defined as follows: A vocal potential emerges from movements in the body. As these movements develop, vibration is released. The vocal phenomenon which emerges is not only physiological, but also an extension of both a mental state and an identity. In making this connection, vocal explorations utilise all strata of being.

A typical workshop includes:
– learning the Body Alphabet;
– personal exploration of the Body Alphabet through improvisation;
– working on text and song chosen by participants, both individually and collectively.

Through the exploration of body and voice, we invite each participant to discover and experience their own unique vocal identity and to enter into the unknown.

Photo Karol Jarek

The participants will be asked to prepare and learn by heart a piece of text and songs

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Conditions

5 to 6 hours of daily work, mainly in a studio space of 80 m2 setteled in a traditional barn in French Limousin, at the border of the forest.

Accommodation is be proposed in a guesthouse in the surroundings.

The food is to be prepared together.

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Calendar

August 4th (sun) : arrival, common dinner

August 5th-9th : workshop, meetings with Jorge et Zoé, presentation of the Site for theatre practices, walks, meals preparations together

August 9th : Opening of the workshop to friends of the Site for theatre practices, festive evening around singing and sharing

The workshop is based on orally transmitted multipart chants. The work is made out of a preparation of the ears, the breathing, the body ; experiences, drones and improvisations, as well as repertory pieces of various origins.

It is a group work, which does not require any previous experience nor musical education (memory based work, with the support of papers for texts) ; is it based on a common desire to let the boat go, and is feeding a common understanding and collective memory.

The work is based on the listening and the physical understanding of the sound, vibration, each one’s timbre ; overtones, the color of vowels, the instant, the involvement of the body and on the blossoming of the song rather than refining the songs.

Here is an announcement about an unique practical atelier of one year, in France and Poland, with many people who already led a work in Lavauzelle (Jorge Parente, Sankar Lal S Nair, Przemek Blaszczak/Teatr ZAR among many others…).

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The Actor’s Atelier,

The Actor’s Atelier is a 3-year project of the Grotowski Institute divided into three yearly series of work sessions that will be held simultaneously at different partner venues from 2018–2021. Each year, at each of the venues, a group of 14 participants will take part in a course of 4–5 work sessions. Please note the sessions will be led in English. The programme of the Actor’s Atelier in Paris consists of five sessions held in Paris and one session held in Wrocław, Poland. The Paris sessions will take place at La Guillotine, 24 rue Robespierre, 93100 Montreuil. Each session will consist of several-day training in the lines of practice represented by the leaders who hold regular work sessions at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław.
http://www.bodyconstitution.art.pl/en/actors-atelier

If you are interested in participating in the project, please email your completed application form and CV to Amandine Audinot at actorsatelier.paris(at)gmail.com by 9 July 2018.

Workshop led by Claire Newland, choreographer, dancer and pedagogue, founder of fondatrice de Siloe ensemble, between Limousin and Occitanie, specialized in young audience and in situ performance.

Open to everyone.

Since “Carré d’herbes”, in 2009, Claire is leading in situ movement workshops for adults, school children, teenagers…

Our body, a landscape to discover, to open, the body of the Earth, as a vast, infinite field of experience. Here let resound the notion of edge…

To let ourselves get immerge in the space of our senses, to enlarge our perceptions, touch and contact, to stimulate our body structure, to connect, let ourselves be hold by the system of our organs. To let the fluxes of movement pass through ourselves, in and around us, in relation to others, to the contextes…

Start from the hearing, in order to challenge the thread of dance, going through exploration processes, scores and improvisation, alone, in couples or in group, in a benevolent environment. We will, as well, explore the place of the witness.

The workshop will give us the opportunity to meet our environment, the other (and ourselves) through vibrating, through the touch even more than earing. It will give us opportunity to sing forms coming from traditional cultures (different sound phenomenons coming from different cultures/repertoires). As those traditions, orally transmitted and “anonymous”, we will need to get “invisible” in the mixture of voices but, even more, essential to the group, to be the one carrying the whole utterance – without being deaf to the others.

Using all the instantly available resource, including the “wrong” tones, we’ll aim to make ours the musical formulas, using prosody, timbre, tempo, ornaments… The only criterion will then be not the “right” but the richness, thickness of the sound one’s body can mesure.

The workshop will consist in a physical preparation based on the opening of vibratory spaces in the body. Then, we’ll get to a time of meeting through sound (improvisation) our/other’s bodies, as well as the space, to visit various heights and vowels. Then, we’ll go through several pieces from the traditional repertoires – using the tools of the oral transmission and collective intelligence.

July 22-26th 2018, Site de pratiques théâtrales Lavauzelle, Creuse, France

Jorge Parente at the Grotowski Institute, phot. Maciej Zakrzewski

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Zygmunt Molik is one of the main actors of Jerzy Grotowski’s ensemble, who entered the history of theatre in the 1960′. More than an actor, Z. Molik was leading the vocal trainings of the company.

Researcher and pedagogue, he became an important person in the polish « paratheatre », developing during 50 years a praxis of vocal training implying the body and the Being. He built a body alphabet, based on precise physical actions, structuring the exploration and discovery of the voice. He taught in France for a long time.

Jorge Parente, actor and director, followed his direction during twenty years, being his assistant. After Zygmunt’s departure in 2010, he became the helder of this tradition, developping his work in France (often in La Guillotine, Montreuil), Poland (The Grotowski Institute) and Portugal.

Zoé Ogeret, actress and Jorge’s assistant, was as well a long term member of the workshops of Z. Molik.

Molik’s methodology can be defined as follows: A vocal potential emerges from movements in the body. As these movements develop, vibration is released. The vocal phenomenon which emerges is not only physiological, but also an extension of both a mental state and an identity. In making this connection, vocal explorations utilise all strata of being.

A typical workshop includes:
– learning the Body Alphabet;
– personal exploration of the Body Alphabet through improvisation;
– working on text and song chosen by participants, both individually and collectively.

Through the exploration of body and voice, we invite each participant to discover and experience their own unique vocal identity and to enter into the unknown.

Photos Karol Jarek

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Conditions

5 to 6 hours of daily work, mainly in a studio space of 80 m2 setteled in a traditional barn in French Limousin, at the border of the forest. Accommodation is be proposed in a guesthouse in the surroundings.

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Calendar

July 21st (sat) : arrival, common dinner

July 22nd-26th : workshop, meetings with Jorge et Zoé, presentation of the Site for theatre practices, walks, meals preparations together

July 26th : Summer « Rendez-vous » of the Site de pratiques théâtrales, festive evening around singing and sharing